Past events
How ISIS changed the world again
In this public lecture Robert Pape will explain the rise of ISIS, its goals, targeting logic, and the group's recent shift to spectacular attacks in the context of the global environment of...
Japan, Australia and regional security architecture
In this public lecture, experts from Japan and Australia...
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs orientation session
Professor Michael Wesley, Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, warmly invites all postgraduate students commencing their studies in the Master of Diplomacy / Master of...
‘This month’s fairytale’: the dilemmas of pacification in Phuoc Tuy, 1966-1972
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, a significant number of historians and commentators have asked not ‘what if’ but lamented ‘if only’, arguing that certain courses of action on the part of the...
New Directions in War and History: Debating military history
The Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (ANU) and the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (UNSW Canberra) are pleased to announce an international conference that...
Call for Papers - New Directions in War and History: Debating military history
The Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (ANU) and the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society (UNSW Canberra) are pleased to announce an international conference that...
The Levant crisis: Syria, Iraq and the region
The Syrian civil war has killed thousands and displaced millions, with dire economic, social and political implications not just for Syrians, but neighbouring countries, the region, and wider...
'After liberal peace': public keynote lecture as part of the workshop on ‘hybridity: history, power and scale’
Work on peace and its development during the 2000s, drawing on peace and state building examples from around the world, now looks rather dated. Such work concluded with some thoughts on the potential...
Convergence and divergence: the paradox of US-China relations
The US-China relationship - arguably the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world - is defined by an abiding paradox: while the two countries have never been so interdependent nor...
The American tributary system and Asia-Pacific security
This lecture employs the idea of the tributary system—most often associated with China’s international relations from antiquity—to interpret how America relates to the rest of the world. Professor...
